2026
Ongoing
Organized by IKOS in cooperation with IMK, ILN and ILOS
Hosted by Kathinka Frøystad and Cristina Archetti.
Upcoming
In this course, PhD fellows are acquainted with the ethical dilemmas and controversies arising from four interpretative approaches.
For the last couple of decades, a lot of humanities scholarship have been scaling up. Scholars have approached their objects of study at larger scales, both temporally and spatially. In a sense, this represents a break with much postwar humanities, in which scale has not really been an issue.
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This intensive three-day PhD course examines contemporary geopolitics through strategically deployed material relations and evolving forms of deliberate reciprocity and asymmetry between China and other actors in a shifting world order.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Study of Religion Linda Gustavsson, who is working on a project with the title "Ethno-political Contestations on Festival Grounds in the Indian Himalayas. A Study of Religious Change Among the Limbu in Sikkim".
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle Eastern Studies Iman Afify, who is working on a project with the title "Ideologies in Stone: Antiquities and The (Re)Production of The Egyptian Nation-State".
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Ingrid Eskild, who is working on a project with the working title "Scales of Life: Instruments, Ideograms, and the Nineteenth-Century Scientific Imagination".
Text development seminar organized by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. PhD students at the Faculty of Humanities must attend at least two text development seminars as part of their educational component.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in the Study of Religion Marianne Friisberg Larssen, who is working on a project with the working title "The Sacred at Risk: The Protection of Sacred Landscapes in Sápmi".
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Study of Religion Olav Børreson Fossdal, who is working on a project with the title "Witnessing Faith: The Evolving Role of Witnesses in Norwegian Conversion-based Asylum Claims".